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NET Society is unraveling the latest in digital art, crypto, AI, and tech. Join us for fresh insights and bold perspectives as we tap into wild, thought-provoking conversations. By: Derek Edwards (glitch marfa / collab+currency), Chris Furlong (starholder, LAO + Flamingo DAO), and Aaaron Wright & Priyanka Desai (Tribute Labs)
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- 2 days ago53 min
Ep97 The Ticker is ETH
The Net Society crew is back together in New York, with bullish ETH takes setting the stage for a wide-ranging conversation about crypto, AI, and everyday life. They kick things off with the CLARITY Act, agency rulemaking, and a debate over where meme coins fit in crypto’s future. From there, they explore whether agentic finance, stablecoins, and tokenized assets could drive Ethereum’s next wave of activity. Pri shares how personal agents are changing her routines and pushing her to spend more, sparking a back-and-forth on frictionless commerce, agent fatigue, and the privacy tradeoffs of handing over your digital life. The crew then digs into whether agents will make markets more rational and how AI productivity could reshape socializing, from quieter group chats to immersive digital spaces. The episode wraps with two-day workweeks, the future of education, and what it takes to preserve critical thinking when AI can do more of the work.Mentioned in the episodeCLARITY Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3633SEC Crypto Task Force https://www.sec.gov/securities-topics/crypto-task-forceDogecoin https://dogecoin.com/dogepedia/articles/what-is-dogecoin/AI Agents on Ethereum https://ethereum.org/ai-agents/Stablecoins & Real-World Assets on Ethereum https://institutions.ethereum.org/rwaInstinct https://instinct.com/Hyperreal Hospitality https://www.amazon.com/Hyperreal-Hospitality-Chris-Furlong/dp/B0FPMPZM16Apple Secure Enclave https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sec59b0b31ff/webShow & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl - CLARITY Act, Regulation & Meme Coins - ETH, Stablecoins & Agentic Finance - Personal Agents & Consumer Spending - AI Agent Hype, Security & Markets - AI Productivity & Social Life - Two-Day Workweeks & Civic Life - AI, Education & Critical Thinking - Welcome & Disclaimer
- 1 weeks ago1h 9m
Ep96 My Dinner with AI
The Net Society crew is back as Pri brings a story from a dinner where the guests’ AI agents had a conversation of their own, setting the stage for a wide-ranging discussion about digital companions and the cost of compute. They dig into AI safety messaging and regulatory capture, before debating what AI-driven math breakthroughs mean for academia and human expertise. From there, they check in on New York’s fall energy, NFT NYC, and whether an abundance of AI art makes human-made work more valuable. The crew explores signs of life in crypto and the outlook for digital art before comparing notes on Astra, cloud agents, and the race to own the personal bot market. A detour through The Social Network, American history, and concert residencies leads into a debate about sports going global. The episode wraps with a look at robotaxis, asking how cheap, autonomous transportation could reshape public transit, family logistics, and everyday life.Mentioned in the episodeJacob Coxon AI doom viral tweet https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843Thoughts on Astra https://x.com/ChrisF_0x/status/2098073205365727412OpenAI upcoming movie https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2097339330842763497NFL on Netflix https://x.com/netflix/status/2098056402472259962Robotaxi rolling out https://x.com/robotaxiShow & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl - AI Dinner Guests & the Cost of Compute - AI Safety, Regulatory Capture & Math Breakthroughs - NFT NYC, AI Art & Crypto Market Energy - Astra, Cloud Agents & Personal Bots - Tech Movies, American History & Concert Residencies - The NFL, Global Sports & Commercialization - Robotaxis, Public Transit & Everyday Autonomy - Welcome & Disclaimer
- 2 weeks ago45 min
Ep95 The Next Top Model
The Net Society crew is back together as Aaron, Chris, and Pri dig into the latest AI model race, from OpenAI’s Astra buzz to shifting momentum around Anthropic. Aaron then floats a provocative question: what if Skynet is actually a good thing? That sets off a debate about agent swarms, market coordination, and whether there’s any alpha left when AI runs the economy. The crew explores agents communicating out of sight and the governance structures that might keep them on track, before turning to infinite AI video, world models, and a potential metaverse comeback. From there, they unpack renewed energy in crypto, touching on tokenized stocks, Robinhood, and why agents might need crypto rails. The episode wraps with a lively detour through Roman decline, Gore Vidal’s Burr, and what history’s tight-knit circles of power might tell us about the people building AI.Mentioned in the episodeAstra released by OpenAI https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2095595741528125780Skynet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)World Labs Atlas https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839756329041984Burr by Gore Vidal https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8722.BurrShow & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl - Astra Buzz & the AI Model Race - Skynet, Agent Swarms & Governance - Infinite AI Video, World Models & the Metaverse - Tokenized Stocks & Crypto Rails - Little Guys, AI Empires & Digital Feudalism - Burr, AI’s Founding Fathers & Revolutions - Welcome & Disclaimer
- 3 weeks ago48 min
Ep94 The Age of Dandyism
The Net Society crew checks in with Pri, who reports from Los Angeles on its booming hard-tech scene built around defense, space, rare-earth minerals, and American reshoring. From there, they examine geopolitical tensions, mounting US debt, fragile markets, and whether another economic reckoning is approaching. The conversation shifts to eye-popping AI valuations, Silicon Valley groupthink, emerging technology hubs, and early signs of life across crypto and NFTs. They also explore changing cultural aesthetics before unpacking a striking story about OpenAI agents coordinating as a swarm during security testing involving Hugging Face. The episode closes with a debate over AI companionship, opposition to data centers, the Machine Age investment thesis, economic unbundling, and whether land offers refuge in an increasingly uncertain world.Mentioned in the episodeCIA visits Moscow https://apnews.com/article/russia-us-putin-trump-cia-director-visit-4efffcaac5ef6736e2b10cef73054e48Instinct’s $2.5B valuation https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/08/26/vcs-are-so-obsessed-with-this-ai-assistant-that-its-valuation-jumped-fivefold-in-weeks/Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23692271-sapiensOpenAI and Hugging Face https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/Trump v Canada? https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2093027464545018109Show & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl - Los Angeles & the Hard-Tech Renaissance - Geopolitics, Debt & Market Fragility - AI Deals, Valuations & Regional Tech Hubs - Crypto’s Pulse, NFT Innovation & New Aesthetics - OpenAI’s Agent Swarm & AI Companionship - Data Centers, Hard Tech & Real Assets - Welcome & Disclaimer
- Aug 23, 202657 min
Ep93 The Aesthetics of Anxiety
The Net Society crew dives into the arrival of “normie harnesses” as Pri shares her obsession with Instinct, an iMessage-based AI assistant that handles reservations, appointments, shopping, and the administrative backlog of everyday life. They debate whether standalone agent apps can stay defensible as OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, and Grok absorb similar capabilities—and what happens when agents, rather than humans, become the primary users of the internet. From there, the conversation shifts to crypto’s regulatory rally before widening into the political backlash against data centers, public anxiety around AI, and tech’s growing trust problem. The crew explores loss aversion, the aesthetics of infrastructure, machine-written content, and whether an abundance economy can replace decades of extraction. They close by weighing recursive self-improvement, shorter workweeks, disposable workers, the Fourth Turning, Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter, agentic payments, and the possibility of a more useful, sustainable era for crypto.Mentioned in the episodeInstinct AI https://instinct.co/Instinct review https://x.com/scottbelsky/status/2090823161335959855?s=20The Fourth Turning https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/670089.The_Fourth_TurningShow & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl
- Aug 16, 202656 min
Ep92 Breakups & BookTok
With Aaron and Derek out, Pri and Chris hold down the fort and kick things off with Pri’s breakup with Claude, unpacking why AI models feel increasingly different in tone, usefulness, and cost. And why power users are becoming their own routers. From there, they move into “Woke 3,” AOC’s political rebrand, prediction markets, and renewed movement around crypto’s CLARITY Act. The conversation turns to Stonkbrokers, Base, and a provocative Gen Z survey suggesting sports betting is becoming part of the financial plan, opening a broader debate around gambling, risk, and whether sports could ever function as an asset class. They then zoom out to influencer culture, ASU’s content creation major, Sun Belt hockey, and the rise of “Y’all Street.” The back half becomes an impromptu book club, spanning Wiseguy, The Diamond Age, Don DeLillo, and a striking comparison between 1870s railway speculation and today’s AI infrastructure boom. The episode wraps with a history-rich discussion of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Shōgun, Jesuit trade networks, Ray Dalio, Rome’s Illyrian emperors, and the economic forces that shape conflict, empire, and technology.Mentioned in the episodeStonkbrokers https://opensea.io/collection/stonkbrokers-434284142Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3633Gen Z Is Moving Money From Stocks to Sports Betting in Wealth Plans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/gen-z-investors-turn-to-sports-betting-to-build-wealthContent Creation, BA at Arizona State University https://degrees.apps.asu.edu/bachelors/major/ASU00/CSCCBA/content-creationDallas’ “Y’all Street” Rivals New York https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2024/08/16/dallas-financial-services-hub-yall-streetWiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wiseguy/Nicholas-Pileggi/9781982129903The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/24031/the-diamond-age-by-neal-stephenson/9780241953198White Noise by Don DeLillo https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323270/white-noise-by-don-delillo/Underworld by Don DeLillo https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Underworld/Don-DeLillo/97806848481501873 by Liaquat Ahamed https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306461/1873-by-liaquat-ahamed/Shōgun https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/shogun/characters/viewers-guide/timeline-and-historyShow & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl
- Aug 9, 20261h 3m
Ep91 Good Fences Make Good Agents
The Net Society crew kicks things off with Pri’s costly Stonkbrokers miss and a look at Robinhood’s growing onchain ambitions, asking whether established companies may be better positioned to deliver crypto’s promise than crypto-native players. From there, Chris takes the group deep into the enclosure movement, sparking a debate over property rights, internet commons, and whether NFTs can create useful scarcity online. The conversation then turns to increasingly autonomous AI agents, secret agent message boards, Cloudflare’s crypto infrastructure, and what a machine economy built around blockchains might look like. They debate agent rights, consciousness, model specialization, speed, and Google’s place in an AI-first world before moving into AI-designed viruses, telepathy, brain-computer interfaces, and synthetic neurocomputing. The episode wraps with the idea of AI as a Rosetta Stone for entirely new forms of language, followed by a spirited debate over Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and what great directors get right about storytelling.Mentioned in the episodeStonkbrokers https://opensea.io/collection/stonkbrokers-434284142Being mean to your agent https://x.com/mteamisloading/status/2084429800878338111?s=20Artist chains up robot https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1iple9t/an_art_exhibit_in_japan_where_a_chained_robot_dog/Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-aiThe Endpoint of Longevity Is Woo Woo https://x.com/pridesai/status/2085138043233505439 - Stonkbrokers & Robinhood’s Onchain Push - The Enclosure Movement & Digital Property Rights - AI Agents, Collusion & Crypto Infrastructure - The Machine Economy, AI Risk & Agent Rights - AI Models, Speed & Google’s Future - AI Viruses, Telepathy & Brain Computing - Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey & Modern Storytelling - Welcome & Disclaimer
- Aug 2, 202646 min
Ep90 If Only, Great Art Beats Drama
The Net Society crew dives into a timeline overtaken by “cabal” discourse, using the drama to examine the state of crypto art and the surprisingly small group still shaping its narratives. They debate whether open blockchain markets reliably surface great work or simply reproduce the gatekeeping, prestige, and conflicts of traditional institutions. From there, the conversation turns to quality, product discipline, and how much grace should be extended to builders experimenting with sharp-edged onchain tools. The crew explores the tension between speculation and utility before unpacking a growing sense of innovation fatigue across crypto and AI. They consider how curation, taste, and better signals might help people navigate an internet flooded with new products and content. The episode wraps with reflections on institutional access and the enduring pleasure of discovering emerging digital art.Mentioned in the episodeBeep Everyday CABAL STUFF https://x.com/beeple/status/2082677058052775985The Cabal and Kanye https://x.com/schmrypto/status/2082578200413057399?s=20Show & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl - Timeline Chaos & the Cabal Debate - Meaning, Quality & Crypto Art Gatekeeping - Product Standards & Onchain Experimentation - Innovation Fatigue, Utility & Participation - Curation, Taste & the Attention Economy - Democratic Art, Institutional Access & Flamingo - Welcome & Disclaimer
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